thethingunderthesink

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

Shakespeare is like this

the cure is to kiss your cat on the top of their head

get in loser we’re gonna try again despite it all

onto better things thursday

My toxic trait is that no matter what I need three hours to myself at the end of the day to do absolutely nothing.

no offense but men don’t like… get it. like they don’t get anything

does it mean a girl likes you if she builds a labyrinth around your house

Yes but in the way an entomologist likes a colorful beatle.

[nods] she wants to fuck it. bad.

you know those studies showing that cursing helps with pain tolerance or whatever. that’s how i feel about making my weird little noises to get through my basic daily activities. sometimes you just have to go hggblaaaah for a minute so you can find the strength within yourself to get up or wash the dishes or send an email. mmmnneh. urgh. the torments are unending but you can always make some little sounds about it.

formative years? aren’t they all?

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse

how to escape the terrible fatigue guide

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the thing about media literacy is that understanding why the author chose to specify that the curtains are blue is the same skill set as understanding that the way the author characterizes all black characters as angry or all chinese characters as meek and silent is racist. it is the same skill set as being able to identify when a news source is biased or when someone is feeding you propaganda. the ability to ask "why did this person choose to present this premise in this specific way?" is a critical skill in a world full of misinformation. why are the curtains blue? maybe it's a characterization detail. maybe it's extraneous worldbuilding. why is this character written as being right all the time? maybe you're intended to disagree with them. maybe it doesn't matter. maybe you should still ask why.